John
That said I'm not completely sure why what the FBI did is so wrong. They caught a bad guy and maybe his associates. I see that as a good thing. Further human traffickers need to be hunted down and put away.
We are in agreement, but you and I are talking about justice. Right/wrong. This is about law. Law and justice do at times overlap but are two completely different beasts. Hacking and speading malware is illegal. This is not open to debate and the legal interpretation is strict and narrow. It does not matter how good intentions you have when you do it, it is illegal. If someone made a worm that would dig through government computers and out all the lies, dishonesty and soft corruption is commonplace even in the western world. I would salute such a person for his ethical work for the benefit of society as a whole. The law is going to say that he broke the law and is not going to care an iota about his good intentions. He did something he was not supposed to be doing.
But lets see where it goes. Kjærhus is still in prison (and is unlikely to get released) and the highest prosecutor wants to throw him in a hole and throw away the whole facility in which the hole is located. The FBI case is going to be between the involved nation states legal systems and the FBI (and US forreign affairs administration) and will have little relevance for the actual Kjærhus case. It is a ...what do you call it in English, matter of principle. It will be a principle case?!